{"id":825071,"date":"2025-02-07T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/nathan-tella-nominated-for-bayer-leverkusen-award\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:12:04","slug":"nathan-tella-nominated-for-bayer-leverkusen-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/nathan-tella-nominated-for-bayer-leverkusen-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Tella nominated for Bayer Leverkusen award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles forward Nathan Tella has been nominated for Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Goal of the Month for January, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After struggling to become a regular at Bayer Leverkusen last season, Tella has started to get more minutes this season. The Super Eagles star has played in 16 Bundesliga games, scoring one goal and providing one assist.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/02\/imago1057546674-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Nathan Tella Bayer Leverkusen (Photo credit: Imago)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149678\">Nathan Tella Bayer Leverkusen (Phot ocredit: Imago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tella\u2019s only Bundesliga goal came against Borussia Dortmund on October 10. The 25-year-old forward capitalised on a defensive mix-uo and struck a wicked shot past Gregor Kobel. He scored that goal in the first minute, which set <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/no-boniface-no-problem-nathan-tella-spurs-bayer-leverkusen-to-big-win-at-borussia-dortmund.html\">Die Werkself up for a 3-2 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new development, Bayer Leverkusen have now nominated Tella\u2019s goal as one of the best for January.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\">Jetzt abstimmen: Welcher Treffer ist euer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Werkself?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Werkself<\/a>-Tor des Monats Januar? \u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Tella Borussia Dortmund<br \/>\nAlejandro Grimaldo 1. FSV Mainz 05<br \/>\nFlorian Wirtz Borussia M\u2019Gladbach<br \/>\nPatrik Schick RB Leipzig<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDM?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TDM<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bayer04?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bayer04<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CEATtyres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CEATtyres<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7fmiFQTT67\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7fmiFQTT67<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@bayer04fussball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bayer04fussball\/status\/1887554350240960751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The four other nominees are Alejandro Grimaldo for his goal against FSV Mainz, Florian Wirtz goal against Borussia Monchengladbach, and Patrik Schick against RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<h2>Soccer Can Nathan Tella win the award for the first time?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/02\/imago1051332814-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Victor Boniface, Nathan Tella and Patrik Schick at Bayer Leverkusen (Photo credit: Imago)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149268\">Victor Boniface, Nathan Tella and Patrik Schick at Bayer Leverkusen (Photo credit: Imago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of the five goals in contention, Tella\u2019s is obviously top two. He caught the bal on the half volley and struck it from the edge of the box. While the striker was beautiful, Grimaldo has a great shot of winning it, as his goal was from a freekick.<\/p>\n<p>The other three goals were decent, but there was really nothing spectacular. However, the votes will be decided by fans. As such, it will be more of a popularity contest.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soccer Kelvin Omachonu\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240522-WA0001-150x150.jpg\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/kelvin\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tKelvin Omachonu\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tKelvin Omachonu is a writer with many years of experience covering sports events in Nigeria and abroad. He is fueled by his love for the job, and is dedicated to delivering captivating stories.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/02\/nathan-tella-named-for-leverkusen-award.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Kelvin Omachonu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Super Eagles forward Nathan Tella has been nominated for Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Goal of the Month for January, Soccernet.ng reports. After struggling to become a regular at Bayer Leverkusen last season, Tella has started to get more minutes this season. The Super Eagles star has played in 16 Bundesliga games, scoring one goal and providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":825072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707,2005,128542],"tags":[101606,128541],"class_list":{"0":"post-825071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nathan","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-tella","10":"tag-nathan","11":"tag-tella"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}